Florida officials closed coVID beaches, ports and sites, shut down public transportation, and suggested citizens stay off the streets. Several shelters have also been opened in Miami and the Florida Keys for citizens of mobile homes and low areas.
Broward County also closed categories on user Monday and Miami about to do the same.
Eta had sustained maximum winds of 65 mph (100 km/h) on Sunday at noon and focused on northern Cuba, about 235 kilometers southeast of Marathon, Florida, and about 170 miles (275 kilometers) southeast of Miami. mph (28 km/h).
The typhoon grew rivers and flooded coastal spaces in Cuba, where another 25,000 people had been evacuated, but no deaths were reported.
Eta hit Cuba even as researchers in Guatemala were still digging in search of other people believed to be buried by a large landslide caused by rain. Authorities on Sunday raised the known death toll to 27 out of 15 and said that more than a hundred were missing from Guatemala, many in the landslide in San Cristobal Verapaz.
Some 60,000 more people have been evacuated in Guatemala.
At least 20 other people have also been reported dead in southern Mexico, and Honduras’ local government has reported 21, the National Disaster Agency has shown only eight.
Pope Francis spoke this Sunday of the other people of Central America, hit “by a violent hurricane, which has caused many casualties and enormous damage, also annoyed by the already complicated scenario caused by the pandemic. “Addressing the accumulated faithful in San Pedro. Cuadrado, Francis prayed that “the Lord may welcome the deceased, comfort their families and all who have suffered so much, as well as all who do the most productive things to help them”.
In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis declared Saturday the state of emergency for 8 counties at the end of the state as Eta approached, urging citizens to take an inventory. South Florida began emptying the ports and a small number of shelters were opened in Miami and the Florida Keys for citizens of cell homes and low areas.
Miami-Dade County declared a state of emergency Friday night and also warned that flood tracking would be in effect until Tuesday night.
Further south, in the Keys, officials were closely following the storm, but had not yet planned to evacuate tourists or citizens, suggested citizens protect their boats, and encouraged visitors to modify plans until Eta had passed.
Eta first hit Nicaragua as a category four hurricane, and Panama’s government in Mexico was still tracking the wounded after days of torrential rains during the week.
In Guatemala, search groups first had to succeed over landslides and deep dust just to succeed at the site where the government estimated that some 150 houses had been devastated.
In the most affected village, Complaint, at least five bodies were ripped from the mud. The Aboriginal network of about 1,200 more people consisted of undeniable wooden houses and tin roofs hanging from the mountainside.
Rescuers used a helicopter to evacuate survivor Emilio Caal, who claimed to have lost up to 40 circles of relatives and relatives. Caal, 65, suffered a dislocation in his shoulder when the landslide sent rocks, trees and dirt into the space where he was about to sit. for lunch with his wife and grandchildren. Caal recounted that he had been flown several meters by the force of the slide and that none of the others had been able to leave.
“My wife died, my grandchildren died,” Caal said from a nearby hospital.
In neighboring Honduras, Maria Elena Mejoa Guadrón, 68, died when the brown waters of the Chamelecón River were poured into the Planeta district of San Pedro Sula on Thursday.
In southern Mexico, across the border with Guatemala, 20 other people died as heavy rains attributed to Eta caused landslides and streams and rivers grew, according to Chiapas State Chief of Civil Defense Elas Morales Rodríguez.
The worst incident in Mexico occurred in the mountainous municipality of Chenalhó, where ten other people were swept away by a rain-dragged stream; their bodies were later discovered downstream.
The floods in neighboring Tabasco state were so severe that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador interrupted a trip to western Mexico and flew to Tabasco, his home state, to oversee relief efforts.
The arrival of Hurricane Eta in northeastern Nicaragua on Tuesday followed days of torrential rain as it crawled towards the coast, and its slow, winding path north through Honduras brought the rivers to its shores.
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Associated Press editors Kelli Kennedy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Marlon González in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and Frances D’Emilio in Rome, Italy, contributed to the report.
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